- Ourselves
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.
- Density
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020